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five things.
Happy weekend, dear friends! I titled this post Five things on Friday, which was much catchier, but then Friday came and went and the post sat in my drafts folder (like most of my blog posts, for awhile). This will be a word-heavy, picture-less post, I apologize in advance. I’ll do my very best to make it interesting. Here are a few things we’ve been up to! 1. Starting school We started a new homeschool year on Tuesday, and it’s been lovely. We had a wonderful summer. I felt like I truly disconnected from homeschooling and got to travel and take pictures and catch up with friends and just…
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amelie is 9!
Remember this cute little baby? Well, we blinked and she is nine years old. I decided to tell you about her name today, since we get asked about it often. I also know that some of you who read our blog and then meet us in real life ask, “So how do you pronounce your daughter’s name?” David and I were not the best at choosing baby names, mostly because I never really got a say. Actually, when I met David in college — before we ever started dating — he told me if he had a son, his name would be Judah Stephen (and why, you ask, was a…
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sunday gratitude.
Therefore, let him who until now has had the privilege of living a common Christian life with other Christians praise God’s grace from the bottom of his heart. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together 1. Freedom to worship God publicly. 2. Installing 3 new elders and 3 new deacons this morning. Men and families who are enthusiastic about serving. 3. Seeing friends get plugged into other forms of serving the church, knowing serving will bless them even as they bless others. 4. New faces and very, very familiar faces. 5. Watching people step outside their friend groups and their comfort zones to greet guests and make them feel welcome. 6. The…
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pittsburgh 2018.
David and I arrived home from New York at 5:00 pm Thursday. We thanked our babysitter profusely, unpacked, did 5 loads of laundry, watered the yard, fed the chickens (and our kids), and collapsed into bed. On Friday morning we woke up, packed two suitcases, and the six of us hit the road for Pittsburgh. We were tired, but there was something sweet about being together as a family for 9 hours in the van after several days apart. Plus, the minute we arrived home from New York I thought, I’m not ready for real life yet. So it was very pleasant to get to turn right back around…
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nyc: day three.
Another neighborhood we wanted to explore was Chelsea, so we set out for the subway first thing Wednesday morning, our last full day in the city. I should say here that by this time I was done lugging my heavy camera around the city, so photos from today are a little more sparse. Once we arrived in the neighborhood, we found coffee and a chocolate croissant at this amazing little Italian coffee shop where the man behind the counter greeted customers by name. There’s no carafe of half and half in the shop, no way. If you want milk for your coffee, it’s served in a tiny ceramic jug. I…
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nyc: day two.
I forgot to post this shot of our wonderful, skinny hotel, The Jewel. We slept in ’til 8:00 on our first full day in the city, then set out to find breakfast on the walk to Bryant Park. We stopped in a great little place, Gotan, on 46th Street: David ordered a breakfast biscuit, and I got avocado toast. It makes me laugh that avocado toast is so trendy right now. People in Columbia are talking about it, restaurants are serving it (if you get a chance to stop by the stand at Soda City Market, theirs is delicious). And it was listed on every hip cafe menu in…
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nyc: day one.
David and I were given the astonishing gift of a trip to New York City this month. Some friends knew that seeing the Broadway musical, Hamilton, was near the very top of his bucket list, and gave us tickets and their airline miles so we could go. We’ve known about the trip for a couple of months now, but the reality didn’t really start sinking in until a few weeks ago, when it was time to book a hotel and plan in earnest. I’m excited to tell you all about it here! The plan. So this is how we planned the trip. We decided that if we were…
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housekeeping.
Happy Tuesday, my friends! If you’ve been trying to view the blog today, thanks for bearing with me while I work on it. Every couple years I like to give it a facelift, it sort of revives me. What I really wanted to do this time around was make the images larger. I’m terrible with anything technological or internet-related, and so my progress comes slowly. After using my first DSLR camera for 10 years, I got a nice new one for my birthday in January. It’s been a fun challenge this year, and I have a lot more learning to do. There’s something very rewarding about working hard to take…
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july 4th 2018.
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interview with judah: bethel camp 2018.
What made you excited about camp this year? A lot of things. The zip-line, the food, the people, etc. Who was your bunk mate? Jon Mack What was your major this year? Archery What was a rule your counselors gave you? They didn’t exactly give us a lot of rules. That’s what made it fun. Did you get to sleep in the treehouse this year? Yes. It was more like a tree fort with a gigantic platform with a spiral staircase leading up. I liked it. What was different about this year? Majors were in the morning, but electives came first. How did you like having…
